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Books

Published
March 6, 2016

Signings, etc.: Charles Duhigg

The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and best-selling author will talk about his new book.
Published
February 28, 2016

Book review: Valiant ‘Fairyland’ heroine returns for her final race

Catherynne Valente's 'The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home' is the fifth and final volume in the series. Or is it?
Published
February 28, 2016

One soldier’s inspirational story of survival, endurance

Travis Mills, who lost parts of all of his limbs in an explosion while deployed in Afghanistan, tells his story in 'Tough as They Come.'
Published
February 28, 2016

Signings, etc.: Joseph Hardy in Kennebunk

The author will discuss 'History of a Maine "Little River" ' on Thursday.
Published
February 21, 2016

Author works for peace with colorful children’s books

Sandra Palmer Fish says her books are an effort to influence the world through the people around her.

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Published
February 19, 2016

Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ dies at 89

For most of her life, Lee divided her time between New York City, where she wrote the novel in the 1950s, and her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, which inspired the book's fictional Maycomb.
Published
February 14, 2016

Book review: What motivated German people during WWII?

Nicholas Stargardt's new book fills in gaps about what ordinary Germans knew – and when – during the years from 1939 to 1945.
Published
February 14, 2016

Signings, etc.: Mike Dekker to discuss ‘The French and Indian Wars in Maine’

Sponsored by the Camden-Rockport Historical Society, the event takes place Sunday afternoon in Camden.
Published
February 14, 2016

Book review: ‘Making Refuge’ a compelling analysis of Somali Bantu refugees in Maine

Catherine Besteman, a Colby professor with deep knowledge of the culture, approaches the story as an 'action anthropologist.'
Published
February 14, 2016

Book review: ‘City of Thorns’ shows how refugees are made victims again, by neglect

Ben Rawlence brings the issue of refugee resettlement into sharp focus with compelling profiles of despair and hope.